#i love the debug and live edit items that came from the new pack :')

[pxltown]

just a wip :)

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

Next up we have:

Build/Buy Objects + The World!

This one is gonna be a little more in-depth than the CAS stuff because I have some issues with these sections, and it’s gonna get looooong and seeing as there’s a lot of images taking up space already this is all going to be under a cut to save space on dashes 😊

First off, the world!

Let’s address the elephant in the room, shall we? The first image is a house in Willow Creek that came with base game... which is identical to one of the houses in Strangerville. Seriously, even the layout inside is the same. They literally just plopped the original on the lot, replaced the windows, doors, and fences, moved some furniture slightly, and called it a day. I am not happy at all about this. I get this is just a game pack but honestly, with the sparse way the Sims team decorate houses that come with packs, it wouldn’t have taken any more than 15 minutes to build a new house for that lot in Strangerville.

The next two images are of world decorations that I’m really quite annoyed aren’t available in the build catalogue. At the very least they should be in the debug menu, but they’re not. The new plants, the old cars, the RVs and campers and all of the decorations on them (lights, hanging plants, etc). They did the same thing with a lot of stuff in Get Famous and I just don’t understand why; they’ve made the objects, it’s not like they have to do any more work other than setting them as buyable!

Moving on to a completely missed opportunuity in the big door in the side of the canyon near the secret lab. That 100% should have been the entrance to a hidden lot. Another missed opportunity is that you can’t live in or even edit the lot inside the crater. I would have loved to have been able to build there or even renovate the Secret Lab but sadly even with cheats it’s not possible. Next to that is an oppotunity that they took hold of an ran with and I’m SO HAPPY about it! The plane crash is a completely decorative item UP you can place it over stairs and add a door to it to make it an entrance to a bunker and it looks so damn cool!!

The doors and windows are FANTASTIC! The only complaints I have about the windows is that there aren’t enough versions of them. I like FULL window sets, different versions for all wall heights and tile widths.

The floors and walls are ok BUT once again we have a recycled floor with the linoleum one on the left of the screenshot! Not only that but it has one swatch. Just one. That is literally just a dirtier version of the one from City Living. I know why they do this, because “What about the people who don’t have City Living?” but if they’re going to do that they should at least add some new swatches for those of us that already have the other floor from City Living. I also wish we’d gotten a floor to match the corrugated tin wall, then we could make flat corrugated roofs!

The next image is some of my favourite objects out of the bunch! A UFO light, a bath tub planter (not functional, wish it was but it’s still cool), the cute little decorative armadillo and whatever that little alien thing is lol, LAVA LAMPS! A fully functional AND PORTABLE laptop!!! A very cool new post-apocalyptic-ish shower/tub combo and a cool little military-style camp bed!

Then we have what are complete misses for me. The bookcase is just another in a line of bookcases we’ve gotten recently that are far too big for the shortest wall height and there is no shorter version. Listen, Sims Team, if you’re gonna do that, give us three different sizes for all the wall heights! The other two misses are these two “desks”, which are actually listed in the desk category but are absolutely NOT desks. They’re purely decorative. They serve no purpose at all. You can’t even place stuff on them. WHY!?

And lastly we come to something that REALLY annoyed me and I’m still not over it. See that pretty wrought iron fence in the front? Yeh, I was super excited when I saw it in build mode... and then I placed it. Take a closer look at the screenshot... IT’S 2D! It has literally NO depth! And for some reason the gate does?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FLUFF!? I am SO disappointed in that fence tbh, I discovered it the first day of early access and I’m still bitter about it! Also, there are four new fences (or three fences and one... boarder?) but only ONE of them (the one at the back) comes with a stair railing! I assume it’s because the others are supposed to be like outdoor fences but come on, we need more stair railings anyway!

I just... overall I’m not very happy with build/buy stuff. There are some really good things but they’re few and far between and considering there really isn’t that much stuff to begin with, it’s quite disappointing. That being said, I absolute LOVE the world, Strangerville is definitely my new favourite world, and that combined with the gameplay aspect and the CAS stuff, just about makes up for the disappointment of the rest for me.